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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

~Alfred Whitney Griswold

Topics: Banned Books Burn Go Ideas Jail Stay

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In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

~Alfred Whitney Griswold

Topics: Against Always Bad Better Censor History Ideas Long Long Run Lost Only Run Sure Weapon

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A Socrates in every classroom.

~Alfred Whitney Griswold

Topics: Classroom Every Socrates

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The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

~Alfred Whitney Griswold

Topics: Against Bad Better Ideas Only Sure Weapon

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It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.

~Alfred Whitney Griswold

Topics: Barren Criticism Kind Tells Thing Which You

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Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.

~Alfred Whitney Griswold

Topics: Got May Order Things Wrong

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The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.

~Alfred Whitney Griswold

Topics: Adam Computer Divine Finger God Land Law Leaps Mechanical Physics Poem Policy Shape Spark Takes Ultimate Whether

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Educator

Born: October 27th, 1906

Died: April 19th, 1963

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